Jeffrey B Stuewig

Jeffrey B Stuewig

Associate Professor

Clinical Psychology: Developmental psychopathology, the moral emotions of shame and guilt, family violence, evaluation, and more generally centering around the topic of risk and antisocial behavior.

Jeff Stuewig is a research associate professor in the psychology department at George Mason University. His graduate school and post-doctoral training were in developmental psychology, evaluation, and prevention/intervention research. He has a wide variety of research interests including developmental psychopathology, the moral emotions of shame and guilt, family violence, evaluation, and more generally centering around the topic of risk and antisocial behavior broadly defined (e.g. conduct disorder, delinquency, criminal behavior, substance abuse, etc.) over the life course. Recently he has been involved in a study examining the moral emotions of shame and guilt and their relationship to future recidivism and rehabilitation among a sample of jail inmates. Additionally, he is part of a research group evaluating interventions for jail inmates nearing release.

Recent Presentations

Stuewig, J., & Tangney, J. RCT of a victim impact group for jail inmates: Effects on hypothesized mechanisms of action. (2015). In J.P. Tangney (Chair), Strategically meeting the needs of the forgotten 11 million: Novel approaches to treatment of jail inmates. Presented in a symposium at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York City, NY.

Tangney, J., Daylor, J., Heigel, C., Warden, R., & Stuewig, J. (2015). Strategic jail intervention: The right treatment, at the right time, in the right timeframe. Poster presented at the 3rd North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference, Ottawa, Canada.